President Johnson
was a member of the "Christian Church," also called the "Disciples of
Christ."

President Johnson
was baptized in 1923, in the Pedernales River at a site approximately
seven miles downstream from the LBJ Ranch, while attending a summertime
revival meeting service of the First Christian Church of Johnson City.
Johnson had been exposed to the preaching and teaching of his mother's
Baptist congregation; however, he independently decided that the beliefs
of the Disciples were in accord with his own views, and, on that basis,
he became, and remained, a member of the Disciples of Christ.
The President considered
the First Christian Church in Johnson City as his "home church." In Washington,
D.C., he regarded the National City Christian Church as his "home church,"
and he frequently worshipped there.

President Johnson
would frequently attend services at churches of different denominations.
He would accompany Mrs. Johnson who is Episcopalian, often worshiping
at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C. He would also attend
the Mass at Catholic churches with his daughter Luci. While often going
to his own church in Texas, the First Christian Church, he also attended
Trinity Lutheran Church and Saint Francis Xavier Church, both in Stonewall,
Texas.

Recovering from surgerycredit: Yoichi Okamoto

The Reverend Dr. George Davis of National City Christian Church visits President Johnson in the hospital.

Rebekah Baines Johnson,
the President's mother, was a Baptist, as were most of her ancestors for
several generations. She once expressed the view that she was "grateful
for...my Baptist upbringing, sermons, prayer-meeting and Sunday School."
She described her father -- a leading member of the Baptist Church in
Blanco -- as a Baptist "strict in doctrine, broad in charity, large in
enterprise," who was frequently heard to say proudly, "I am a Baptist
and a Democrat."

President Johnson's
great-grandfather, George Washington Baines, Sr., was one of the best-known
Baptist leaders in the early history of Texas. Reverend Baines accepted
a Baptist pastorate in Texas at Huntsville where, incidentally, he was
the pastor for the Texas hero, General Sam Houston. He was chosen in 1861,
to be President of Baylor University, then and now the leading Baptist
institution of higher education in Texas and the Southwest.

The President's grandfather,
Sam Ealy Johnson, Sr., was raised as a Baptist. Subsequently, in his early
manhood, he became a member of the Christian Church. In his later years,
he affiliated with the Christadelphians. According to Lady Bird Johnson,
President Johnson's father, Sam Ealy Johnson, Jr., also joined the Christadelphian
Church toward the end of his life.

President Johnson
frequently quoted the Bible to illustrate points that he wanted to make.
His favorite quotation was from Isaiah 1:18, "Come now, and let us reason
together."

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